GeoSpatial Application Engineer

Are you looking for a new opportunity to take your career to a higher orbit? To join an international group with a successful track record in Space Engineering? A job adapted to your career ambitions and in which you could have an impact for the years to come?

We are looking for a GeoSpatial Application Engineer to work at EUMETSAT’s premises in Darmstadt, Germany.

About the client and location

The European Organisation for the Exploration of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is a political organisation comprising of 30 European member states. EUMETSAT operates satellites to monitor weather, climate, and the changing environment. They are responsible for helping to isolate potentially dangerous weather conditions that could affect air travel, farming and other key service industries.

Tasks and activities

The scope of work will include:

• Assess and demonstrate Destination Earth Data Lake capabilities, including Harmonised Data Access (HDA) for EO data discovery and access.
• Develop and maintain Jupyter-based EO workflows and end-to-end use cases using Python and relevant libraries and tools.
• Evaluate EO datasets, data formats, and processing operations, and assess data-access APIs in terms of usability and performance.
• Contribute to the Destination Earth Data Lake Data Portfolio and associated metadata and catalogue solutions.
• Translate user needs into clear, traceable requirements and support requirements review, refinement, and handover to implementation teams.
• Perform independent verification and validation of service increments using realistic usage scenarios, including functional and performance testing.
• Raise, track, and follow up on problem reports and non-conformances, and contribute to root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Support technological evaluations and proof-of-concept activities contributing to the evolution of the Data Lake.
• Provide technical feedback to improve services, APIs, tools, and documentation based on hands-on testing.
• Support users through onboarding, documentation, and outreach activities, including demonstrations and workshops when required.

Skills and experience

The following skills and experience are mandatory:

• University Degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• Solid understanding of STAC/OGC standards and modern workflow-management solutions such as Airflow, Celery, or Argo.
• Hands-on experience with geospatial data formats including ZARR, COG, NetCDF, GRIB2, and HDF5, and related operations(e.g. resampling, reprojection, sub-setting etc..).
• Practical expertise in Earth Observation (EO) data processing, leveraging tools such as Spark, Jupyter Notebooks, and Python.
• Scientific EO background with programming skills to design, define, and implement usage scenarios combining Digital Twin models and EO datasets.
• Experience with at least two of these key EO tools:
  • Data access: Data Lake HDA, EODAG, WEkEO, EUMETSAT Data Store, CREODIAS., pyStac, eodag, REST…APIs (Postman)
  • Processing: xarray, Dask, GDA, PyTroll/SatPy, ESA SNAP, rasterio, QGIS
• Knowledge of technologies enabling Analysis-Ready Data, such as data cubes and cloud-native data formats.
• Desire to work both autonomously and as part of a team, in an international multicultural environment.
• Solution oriented mindset, with a customer focused communication skill.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

The following skills and experience are highly desirable:

• Strong experience with metadata standards for scientific data products, including ISO 19115.
• Experience with Scientific/ML EO tools:: NumPy, SciPy, pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, GeoPandas, matplotlib
• Good understanding of EO user needs, ideally with experience using Destination Earth or similar platforms
• Familiarity with AI/ML technologies applied to EO data, supporting advanced analytics and innovative processing workflows.

Why should you apply?

• You will have the opportunity to work within leading space organisations across Europe.
• We encourage everyone to think outside the box and to push the boundaries of traditional knowledge. This role is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking company and allows for a deeper understanding of the industry.
• To be part of a company that values integrity, inspiration, care and collaboration.
• Benefits include: competitive remuneration packages; unique career opportunities, including working in other countries; access to training and development programmes; flexible relocation support.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to achieving diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. We therefore welcome applications from all candidates, irrespective of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious beliefs, age, disability or other characteristics.

As part of our commitment to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process, we will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process.